A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series.
The series was also inspirational for many scientists in the fields of space exploration and the search for extraterrestrial life, including Carl Sagan, who read A Princess of Mars when he was a child..
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The Barsoom series inspired a number of well-known 20th-century science fiction writers, including Jack Vance, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C.
This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment.
Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western.
It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication.
Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-century pulp fiction.
It was first serialized in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine from February-July, 1912.
A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series
